A first novel by literary powerhouse Lauren Elkin - published by Chatto&Windus this June!

I am working with the window open for the first time this year.

I love this tiny three-paragraph essay about taking one’s 12-year-old son to a Shakespeare play. the final paragraph is like a prose poem granta.com/generation-gap…

I just went to the theatre and at intermission people went to the bar and brought back mugs of tea to their seats and it's one of the most British things I've ever seen

Is it social media that's made people so sanctimonious or did they invent social media so people would have a place to put all the sanctimony they couldn't exercise in their day to day lives?

4 Apr: Harriet Baker will discuss her new book RURAL HOURS, on the country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner & Rosamond Lehmann, with Lauren Elkin

Book here: lrb.me/783

I absolutely adored Harriet Baker's RURAL HOURS and am thrilled to get to chat with her about at the LRB Bookshop in April -- please join us!🌳🌳🌳 eventbrite.co.uk/e/harriet-bake…

James Cleverly🇬🇧 Jesus Christ, the country is crying out for care workers - which has a direct impact on hospital waiting times and bed availability - and this is what you advertise to the world?

'Come to Britain to care for our sick and elderly for a pittance…

…BUT COME ALONE!'

Begone! 🙄

le bonheur (1965)

just back from France where book coverage is substantive and challenging and the museums do shows about Lacan, au secours, repatriate me please

I once got reviewed by a person who either didn't read my book or was too dense to understand the argument and they went on to win a Balakian, so🤷‍♀️

just waited on a eurostar queue at GDN that went down both escalators ALL THE WAY INTO THE METRO